Recognizing Attention Deficit Disorder

You might be concerned your child has ADD. How can you tell? Where can you find information and help?

Use ADD Hyperfocus to Its Fullest Advantage

Determination and persistence are two qualities that all successful people have. But if you have ADD, these could be very difficult to maintain...

Who Is At Risk Of Anxiety & Panic Attacks?

Many people suffer from various degrees of anxiety and panic attacks. Is there any way to determine who is more likely to deal with these problems? Read on to find out.

Sorry, Wasn't Paying Attention

Don't you just hate it when... wait, what was I saying? If you've noticed you have trouble paying attention, don't worry, it's probably natural.

Selecting an Autism Diet A Review of Popular Approaches

Art therapy may be an ideal way to develop social skills, but an autism diet may also be another form of effective treatment. Art therapy is a form of expressive therapy, and like expressive therapy, when it comes to food control, there is more than one type of diet that can be used to treat autism.

Are there Bad Psychotherapies?

Many times when things go bad in psychotherapy or counseling, the process itself is questioned. In the experience of the author, there are no 'bad' therapies. The therapist may be inexperienced or not fully trained. The client undergoing therapy may also be impatient for the change to happen. Every person who goes through the process of change in any form of therapy HAS to go through a bad patch of emotional distress. If the process is discontinued, the client may suffer for a longer time than if the process would have continued. In this article the author describes the process of humanistic or experiential therapies.

Diagnosing Autism in Children

Though most children and families find out about autism before the child reaches the age of four, there are some that are diagnosed as early as age one. Some children with Asperger's, is a higher functioning form of the condition, may not know something is different until they start school. No matter what the function level, or how impaired a child might be, diagnosing autism early is always the best way to go. However, because that is not always possible, the parents can only deal with what they see. Some may suspect autism only to find that something else is going on.

General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) - Living On The Edge

Living with GAD is like living life on the edge. You can never relax or seem to have fun the way other people do. While others seemingly go about their lives in relative peace, the person suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder is filled with anxious and worried thoughts that take up their every waking moment.

Neurotic Symptom Score (NSS) - A New Scoring System For Death Related Mental Health Research

It is a scoring system is constructed to measure the amount of neurotic symptoms present in relation to the impact of death. This scoring (measurement) is an ordinal approach. Symptoms described in the DSM-IV of the APA were taken in a list mainly from the sections that are related to adjustment problems, stress, and death. The total number of those symptoms present in one person is taken as the score for a mental health research on death.

Learning About Your ADD

Before the 1980s, doctors were dead set on the idea that ADD was a children's problem. Most have revised that position, but there are many who still hang on to this belief. Adults with attention deficit know for sure that attention deficit doesn't always go away when you grow up. Yet, many adults aren't aware that the symptoms they exhibit are related to ADD, like the inability to stay organized and their problems with interpersonal relationships.

Don't Let Panic Attacks Rob You of Success

Panic attacks can strike at any time and without obvious cause. Symptoms include: shortness of breath, intense heart palpitations, nausea, the desire to flee, trembling, and chest pains. The symptoms are frightening, but doctors say they are simply exaggerations of normal bodily functions. As far as anyone knows, no one has ever died from a panic attack.

Death Rejection Score (DRS) - A New Qualitative Measurement System For Adjustment With Death

Death is an issue that is scientifically approached mainly for the purpose of prevention and adjustment. But no measurement system is available so far to qualitatively measure the adjustment with ones own death when the person is not dying or ill. An approach to construct a qualitative scoring system for this purpose gave birth to the Death Rejection Score.